LAN Printer Sharing easy settings

   Printer Sharing is the most common practice in the office LAN, one printer equipment is completely waste of resources, and increase the cost and burden of management maintenance, so the sharing of printers is not only conducive to enterprise management and can save the use cost. To provide this service, you need to enable printer sharing by following these steps:

Connect

to detect LAN connections, and small offices typically pass (router) links.

File and Printer Sharing protocol is enabled on other computers in the local area network, with the installation driver

attached to the printer. (http://www.dyj123.com) It is important to remind you that you cannot find a shared printer. The way to do this is: Network Neighborhood--right--local connection--right------Install the protocol--check "Allow other users to access my files (F)" and "Allow others to use my printer (P)".

provides services (shared side)

to open Printers and faxes.

Right-click the printer you want to share, and then click Share.   Depending on whether sharing is enabled on the computer, the options on the Sharing tab vary. To learn what to do next, on the Sharing tab, click the option that has the appropriate description.

You must turn on printer sharing   you need to run the Network Setup Wizard to enable printer sharing. First click the link on the Sharing tab, and then execute the system instructions to start the share.   Display options for sharing or not sharing a printer:

1.  on the Sharing tab, click Share this printer, and then type the share name.

Use Printer Sharing service (client side)

1.  on the client, open Printers and Faxes.

2.  Select Add Printer, start the Add Printer Wizard, and click Next.

3.  Select a network printer or a printer connected to another computer, and click Next.

4.  Select Connect to this printer (or browse the printer and click Next), enter the name of the shared printer, format: Printserver_nameshare_name, click Next.

5.  The system requires that the printer driver be installed, an installation prompt appears, and click OK to select the correspondingDriver to install, according to system prompts, complete the installation.